Measuring and registering device for looms



No. s|3,959.

Patented Nov. 8, |898.r A. &. J. BENTLEY.

MEASURING AND REGISTERING D'EVICE FOB LOOMS.

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ALFRED BENTLEY AND JOHN BENTLEY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

MEASURING AND REGISTERING DEVICE FOR LOOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,959, dated November 8, 1896.

Application iled February 19, 1898. Serial No. 670,971. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.- l

Be it known that we, ALEEED BENTLEY and JOHN BENTLEY, of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Measuring and Registering Device for Looms, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of simple, durable, and economic construction whereby a record -may be made of the number of yards o r fractions of a piece of fabric woven upon a loom or a like machine and whereby the record will be accurate and the registering mechanism may be instantlyT thrown out of operation and whereby no portion of the operative mechanism of the loom is necessary to the operationof the device, the goods as produced operating said attachment.

The invention consists inthelnovel construction and `combination of the several parts, as will be vhereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, vformin g a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in allthe figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a loom, illustrating the improvement as applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the improved registering device. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the interior of the device, the upper section of the casing beingpartially removed and partially in section. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is an end view of the device.

In Fig. 1 we have illustrated a portion of the breast-beam A ofpa loom, a portion of the breast-board B, agportion of the cloth-takenp roller C, and a portion o f the cloth-beam D. The attachment is secured uponthe upper portion of the breast-beam, and the said attachment consists of avcasing made in two sections-a base-section E and a top or cap section E. l

The base-section E ofthe casing is provided with a stud 10, which is 'adapted to extend up fromits bottom through the cap-section of the casing E. The base portion of the base-section E of the casing is further provided with apertures 11, adapted to receive of the casing and over the foot 16.

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screws or equivalent fastening devices,where by the device may be attached to the breastbeam of a loom.

At one side of the base-section of the casing E, at the top, a bearing 12 :is provided, (shown in Fig. 3,) in which a shaft 13 is mounted to turn, the said shaft being also journaled in the casing proper, and between the bearing 12 and the wall of the casing in which the shaft 13 is journaled a worm-wheel 14 is formed upon or secured to the said shaft 13, as is likewise shown in Fig. 3.

. At one end of the shaft 13-the end that is opposite that carrying the worm-wheel 14-a gear-wheel 15 is secured, the casing being suitably formed to accommodate the said wheel 15, and the base-section of the casing is also preferably provided with an opening immediately, below the gear-wheel 15; but such an opening is not absolutely necessary. The base-section E of the casing is provided With a foot 16, the top portion of which is usually convexed and the bottom fiat, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5. This foot extends out from that portion of the base-section of the casing in which the gear-wheel 15 is located.

The top or cap section E of the casing eX- tends beyond the side where Jthe gear 15 is located and `over the foot 16. In that portion of the cap-section E of the casing adjacent to the gear 15 and which is over the foot 16 a shaft 17 is journaled, and this shaft is provided with a pinion 19, arranged to mesh with the gear 15, the shaft being also provided with a friction-wheel 18, which friction-wheel extends downward outside of the base-section This friction-wheel'lS may be provided with a corrugated or roughened periphery or it may be constructed of wood and theperiphery be cov- To prevent too free a rotary movement of the friction-wheel '18, a set-screw 19a may be adjusted to have slight frictional contact with one journaled end of the shaft 17.

A registering or recording Wheel 2O is adapted to tu rn loosely on the stud l0, the said wheel being provided with an upwardly-extending hub 21, and al fastening device Fis provided for the recording or registering wheel, which usually consists of an inverted-U -shaped arm IOO 22, which extends over the top of the hub 21 of the registering or recording wheel, and a pin 23, secured to one depending member of the said arm, which pin is passed through an opening 23 in the upper portion of the hub 2l and is engaged with the top of the stud 10, as illustrated in Fig. i.

The free depending member of the arm 22 serves as a check to prevent the removal of the pin 23 from the hub 2l. A plate-spring 20n is affixed by one end on the lower surface of top plate of the casing E, the free end of said spring having contact with the upper surface of the registering-wheel 20. \Vhen the device is to be put into service, the registering-wheel 20 is drawn upward by manipulation of the arm 22, which is moved longitudinally, so as to locate the pin 23 over and in contact with the convex upper end of the stud 10, as shown in the figure mentioned.

It will be seen that the resilience of the spring 20, coacting with the pin 23, will hold the registering-wheel 2O in meshing engagement with the worm-wheel 14 and produce but slight frictional resistance to rotation.

Vhen the full number of yards in a piece of cloth has been indicated by the recordingwheel 2O and a new piece of cloth is to be measured, the locking device F is moved so as to free the pin 23 from the top of the stud 10, whereupon the registering or recording wheel will drop to the bottom of the basesection E of the casing and the wheel may be turned so as to bring zero to a proper point or opposite an indicating-point 25, formed in the wall of a slot 26, made in the upper casing, as shown in Fig. 2, whereupon the locking device is again placed in position to hold the registering or recording wheel in mesh with the worm-wheel 14.

The device is placed as close as possible to the point where the selvage edge of the fabric leaves the loom. Asis indicated in Fig. 5, the selvage edge of the fabric is placed in engagement with the bottom portion of the friction-wheel 18 and over the foot 16, the movement of the cloth to the winding-roller of the loom being the power which operates the friction-wheel, and the friction-wheel, with the chain of gearing above set forth, communicates movement to the registering or recording wheel.

Thedeviceisexceedinglysimple. Itisdurable and economic and may be placed upon any loom and operated without detriment to the movement of any portion of the loom. The device is, furthermore, accurate and will indicate and record the exact number of yards or the fractions of a yard in any piece of material and turned out by the loom.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A measuring and registering device comprising a casing, a fixed stud, a registeringwheel arranged within the casing and provided with a hub extending through an opening in the casing, the said registering-wheel being adapted to turn loosely upon said stud and to slide thereon, a fastening device carried by the said hub and arranged to engage the said stud, a spring adapted to press on the registering-wheel and coacting with the fastening device to hold the registering-wheel in operative position, a friction-wheel adapted to be operated by the passage of the fabric in engagement therewith, and mechanism for driving the said registering-wheel from the friction-wheel, substantially as set forth.

2. In a measuring and registering attachment for looms, the combination, with a casing constructed in two sections, the base-section being provided with a fixed post extending through the upper or cap section, a registering-wheel mounted to slide upon the said post and provided with a hub, and a fastening device consisting of an arm arranged to extend over the hub of the registering-wheel and a pin which passes through the said hub, being adapted for engagement with the upper portion of the said post, of a shaft journaled in the base-section of the casing, provided with a gearwheel and a wormwheel, the worm-wheel being arranged to mesh with the registering-wheel, a foot projected from the base-section of the casing, a shaft journaled in the cap-section of the casing, a pinion carried by the said shaft, engaging with the said gear, and a frictionwheel also carried by the shaft in the upper section of the casing, which friction-wheel is mounted to revolve over the said foot, for the purpose set forth.

3. In a measuring and registering attachment for looms, the combination with a casing having a base-section and a cap-section, an upright post in the base-section extending through the cap-section, a registering-wheel mounted to slide on the post and havingahub that projects through the cap-section, a platespring on the cap-section pressing upon the registering-wheel when the said wheel is elevated, and an elevating and fastening device for the registering-wheel, comprising a substantially U-shaped arm inverted above the post, and a pin horizontally projected from one depending member of the arm through a perforation in the wall of the hub, the other depending member of said arm preventing a removal of the pin from the hub, said device coacting with the plate-spring to hold the registering-wheel elevated and out of contact with the casing, of a shaft journaled in the base-section of the casing, a gear on one end of the shaft, a Worm on the other end of said shaft adapted to mesh with teeth formed in the periphery of the registering-wheel, a counter-shaft journaled in the casing parallel with the other shaft, a pinion on the counter-shaft meshing with the gear, and a friction-wheel mounted on the counter-shaft and adapted for contact with goods that are to be measured, substantially as described.

4. In a measuring and registering device,

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the latter is heid in operative position bythe fastening device, a shaft provided with a friction-Wheel adapted to be operated by the passage of the fabric in engagement therewith, a gear connection between the said shafts, and means for preventing too free rotary movement of the friction-Wheel, Substantially as set forth.

ALFRED BENTLEY.. JOHN BENTLEY.' Witnesses:

JOHN KEYS, J o HN RANCIER. 

